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Sydney eScholarship Repository and DSpace

Sten Christensen & Gary Browne

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Sydney eScholarship Repository

Software: DSpace Version: 1.4.1 Standard customisations

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Sydney eScholarship Repository

• An open access repository for digital

material created at or by the University of Sydney.

• Part of a wider Sydney eScholarship

initiative

• We offer “a” not “the” repository option

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Why DSpace?

• Suited our needs as a digital asset

management system – (at the time)

• We have/had the ability to support both the

software and the service

• Open source allows us to make the relevant

changes and customisations we require, when required

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Sydney eScholarship

Sydney Digital Library

• eScholarship repository
• SETIS digital collections
• Sydney Digital Theses
• support, consultation and

advisory services

• hosting services

Sydney University Publishing

• Sydney University Press
• other imprints
• digital / print on demand

services

• eStore, eCommerce and

business services

• experimental publication

VALUE ADDING

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Sydney eScholarship Repository

Integrated activities

• Publishing - OJS and Complex

publications

• University Research Office – storage of

material required for the RQF

• Linkages with other repositories

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Sydney eScholarship Repository

Standard Service – Free

• Establishment
• Education and advice
• Storage and archiving
• Community does most of the work
• Premium – Fee based
• Metadata creation
• Digitisation
• Loading of material
• Major Customisations and database interface design

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Issues with DSpace

• Scalability
• Rigid structure – communities &

collections

• Managing complex objects
• Metadata schemas that are hierarchical